Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

Walter Knott

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert G. Ingersoll

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Michael Phelps

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Teri Garr

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Paula Abdul

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance

Michael Singer

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.

Eric Alterman

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

Mark Ruffalo

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

Vanessa Paradis

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Cassandra Clare